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Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, announced September 3, expands access to frontier cyber AI, training and support for organizations running essential services. Enrolled organizations received Astra ahead of Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise subscribers. OpenAI
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OpenAI published "Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards" on September 1, declaring Astra the first model to meet the Critical cybersecurity threshold in its Preparedness Framework (OpenAI). Critical, in their own definition, means the model can find and...
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Per-token prices went down at both labs. Subscriptions are draining faster at both labs. Those aren't in tension once you look at token counts. On the OpenAI side, r/OpenAI collected reports from Linux.do and NodeSeek alleging Astra consumes more Plus quota than its published...
Shipped August 13 to Pro, Business and Enterprise: ChatGPT and Codex can draw on activity memories from apps and websites on macOS, with per-app opt-in and review or delete controls. OpenAI This is Cursor's Google Workspace connector move, but reaching down to OS-level activit...
He posted an apology for the messy rollout and said broad rollout would start with Pro subscribers, after Daybreak-enrolled enterprises got access ahead of the Pro tier that normally goes first. OpenAI committed to one banked reset for every day a paid ChatGPT plan lacks Astra...
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